Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Pilot Witnesses Black Cigar Shaped UFO At Low Altitude - Canada

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A Canadian business jet pilot approaching
Springbank Airport just west of Calgary reported watching a cigar-shaped UFO
flying low to the ground, according to testimony in Case 62198 from the Mutual
UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Calgary Springbank Airport
Tower

The pilot was approaching the airport
about mid morning on December 17, 2014, when the object was first noticed.

“Approaching from the north, I was approximately 10 miles north of Cochrane
flying parallel to and a couple miles west of Highway 22 and descending through
8,500-feet above sea level or about 4,500 -feet above the ground,” the witness
stated. “It was a bright, sunny morning and I was just looking at the scenery
when I spotted a black object along the highway, maybe two miles ahead of me
that was moving fast northbound, towards me.”

The pilot first thought the object was a fast car and decided to time it to see
how fast it was moving.

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“After looking at it for a few seconds, I
thought I would time it along the section lines on the ground and calculate a
speed of this very fast car. Within a few seconds I realized that what I
thought was going to be a Corvette, in fact, was a flat black colored, tubular
object that was flying low level over the highway. It was cigar-shaped and not
flying with the end of the cigar pointing forward but perpendicular with the
long edge in the direction of flight.”

The pilot was actually getting closer to the object.

“As I was flying south at some 230 knots and the object was coming towards me,
the whole encounter happened fast, but fortunately I was getting closer and
could get a better look at the craft.”

The pilot got a good look at the object.

“As I came above the object, it was wider than the road and difficult to
estimate the height, but probably within a couple hundred feet of the ground.”

The pilot was then surprised to see the object disappear.

“Then maybe stranger than actually seeing this object, as it was nearest my
position directly off my left wingtip, it vanished within one-half a second. It
quickly turned translucent where I could see a blurred image of the field and
road through it while it had a darker edge along the outline of the craft. The
object very quickly appeared clearer and within a fraction of a second it
disappeared from view.”

The pilot scanned the ground area trying to locate the object again.

“I had no idea what I had seen and scanned the area around the track the object
was flying, thinking maybe it was the top of a wing of a pipeline patrol
aircraft that I had seen, and that maybe the aircraft banked and I lost sight
of it. Scanning the area it never reappeared.”

The pilot then used instrumentation to locate other aircraft in his area.

“I looked at the TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) display in the
cockpit that shows all the aircraft that are being interrogated by ATC radar in
the area. And although there were many other aircraft to the south and west,
there was nothing on the display near me.”

The pilot attempted to judge the size of the object.

“Looking back towards where I last saw the object, I noticed cars on the road
heading south and this helped judge the size and speed of the object compared
to a ‘known ground based object.’ The cars were both much smaller and slower
than the object and were within a mile of it when it disappeared. The drivers
may have seen the same phenomena. I estimate the object as between 50 -80 feet
in length and 15-20 feet wide.”

The pilot also tried to estimate the object’s speed.

“It moved on a steady track and at a constant speed. I mentally timed it at
crossing a half-mile in under 12 seconds or around 160 mph, a speed not
particularly fast for a small airplane, but faster than what patrol aircraft
use when flying low level.”

He described the object.

“There were no discernible markings, windows, lights, or other features. Just a
flat black, rectangular cigar-shaped object. The entire encounter was at the
most 30 seconds long as the closing speed on the object was in the neighborhood
of 400 mph.”

There were no other witnesses aboard the pilot’s aircraft.

“There were several passengers on the aircraft, but they were concentrating on
a conversation in the aircraft. I doubt anyone saw the object and I didn’t ask
as I enjoy my job. Likewise, as the object never showed on my TCAS, there
wasn’t much point in asking ATC if they noticed anything. Besides it had
disappeared at that point.”

The pilot compared the sighting to other experiences.

“On a side note, as a pilot with 30 years of experience, I have seen sights and
objects which I could always dismiss as meteors, cloud formations, atmospheric
phenomena such as inversions, other aircraft, satellites, etc. Even if this
object had kept its track, I may have been passed off as some type of UAV,
however, as I witnessed from a relatively close range the disappearance of the
object, I have no doubt it was something that is either cutting edge top secret
military tech or something that I have no explanation of.”

Calgary/Springbank Airport or Springbank Airport, is an airport located in
Springbank, Alberta, a large western suburb of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The
airport is located within rural Rocky View County.